Orangerie der Fürsorge: Plant Music (Miki Yui)
Long duration concert by Miki Yui
Plant Music is an electro-acoustic piece inspired by an early drawing by Beuys, “Plant” from 1947. Here, Plant implies not only the mother of all organism on earth but also the verb “to plant”, and Music is the transporter and the transformer into alternated flow of time and entangled space.
Originally composed as a radio piece, as a homage to Beuys, the piece was transformed later into an audio-installation and now becomes a long duration concert.
Plant Music invites listeners to an imaginary world at dawn – the process of a seed growing, embraced in soil, water, air, and light; the communication between micro-organisms becomes tangible.
Miki Yui is a Japanese artist, composer, and musician based in Düsseldorf. With a background in fine art, she creates subtle and poetic works that cross the boundaries of music, performance, radio production, drawing and installation. Since 1999 she is known for her minimalistic and organic approach towards music. From a delicate tiny hiss to a distant hum, electronic sounds and field recordings are woven into music with a narrative tension. This autumn, she has released her 8th solo album As If on the label Hallow Ground. She works with Carl Stone under the moniker Realistic Monk, further collaborators are Klaus Dinger, Rolf Julius, Asmus Tietchens and Rie Nakajima.